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Source: Global Times Published: May 22, 2013 19:58
Spending time with Lit Ng is like hanging out with a buddy from college who always surprised you with his passion for a niche hobby that, despite his encouragement, you never really embraced.
Except Ng, an 81-year-old Chinese-American, never went to college, or even finished high school.
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Source: Global Times Published: May 21, 2013 17:03
A 27-year-old man closely examines a brassiere in his hands, carefully squeezing it and checking its symmetry. It’s a typical scene on a typical day in Ma Zhiyuan’s office. He’s no pervert, because, surprise, surprise, he’s actually a women’s lingerie designer and buyer.
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Source: Global Times Published: May 20, 2013 19:08
At a recent signing of his book The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets of a City Transformed (2009), American author Michael Meyer was a picture of reluctant exhaustion. Bombarded by questions at the Beijing Danxiangjie Bookstore about his three-year hutong embedment, his sm...
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Source: Global Times Published: May 19, 2013 17:38
Guo Jianguo held onto the arms of an 8-year-old and flung the boy over his shoulder.
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Source: Global Times Published: May 09, 2013 19:28
Between his Welsh accent and fluent Chinese, Iain Inglis, the nearly 35-year-old freelancer in tropical Sanya, Hainan Province, told the story of how he experienced the ups and downs along with China's political changes after becoming known as a “Red Song Talent” on popular television shows.
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Source: Global Times Published: May 02, 2013 19:33
Five years ago, a dancer lost her legs and her 10-month-old daughter when an earthquake struck Wenchuan, Sichuan Province in 2008, leaving about 87,000 people dead or missing and more than 370,000 injured.
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Source: Global Times Published: April 19, 2013 23:28
If you get the chance to visit Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, don’t be surprised to see a middle-aged man walking to and fro on the span, watching pedestrians through his binoculars.
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Source: Global Times-Agencies Published: March 28, 2013 19:58
“It’s worse than being in prison!” This is one way that 49-year-old Li Long described the year he spent in a labor reeducation center in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province.
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Source: Global Times Published: March 07, 2013 17:53
Recent years have seen dozens of notorious officials brought to justice after their misdeeds were exposed online as ordinary citizens take up the task of whistle-blowing. Among these watchdogs using the Internet as an active platform for setting the record straight is Gao Qinrong, a former Xinhua re...
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Source: Global Times Published: February 16, 2013 10:23
“My dream is to live with a girl I love. It doesn’t matter if I have to cut firewood or pick up scraps for a living,” 10-year-old Feng Shaoyi, a middle school student in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, expressed in an online manifesto titled “Dropout application.”
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